Isaiah 59:4

When you accuse someone in court, what you say is not fair and it is not true. You accuse people falsely. You are constantly planning to cause trouble for others, and then you do those evil things that you planned.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

In Context

3You do violent things [MTY] to others, with the result that your hands are stained with their blood. You constantly tell [MTY] lies, and you say [MTY] evil things about others.

5What you plan to do to harm people [MET] is as dangerous as the eggs of a ◄cobra/poisonous snake►, because cobras will hatch from those eggs. You trap people like [MET] spiders trap/catch insects in their webs.

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Cross References

Job 15:35They plan to cause trouble and to do evil things, and they are always preparing to deceive people.”

Psalms 7:15But when they dig a deep pit to trap others, they themselves will fall into it.

Psalms 62:4My enemies plan to remove me from my important position so that people no longer honor me. They delight in telling lies. They bless people by what they say [MTY], but in their inner beings they curse those people. (Think about that!)

Proverbs 4:16because evil people cannot sleep if they have not done some evil deed on that day. They cannot rest if they have not harmed someone.

Isaiah 33:11You people of Assyria make plans that are as useless as [MET] chaff and straw. Your breath will become a fire that will burn you up.

Isaiah 59:13We know that we have rebelled against Yahweh; we have turned away from him. We ◄oppress people/treat people cruelly► by what we testify against them; we do not allow them to get what they have a right to get. We [SYN] think about the lies that we can tell, and then we tell them.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak… Read the whole commentary →

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